Sarah Walker

2/13/2014: During World War II, the United States held many drives for all sorts of goods to aid the war effort. People bought war bonds, grew victory gardens, "canned" Hitler, rationed their foods, and gave up nylon, rubber, and metals.

1/31/2014: In May of 1917, as the First World War rolled on across the seas, Congress established the Selective Service Act, and consequently, the selective service system, in order to administer a selective draft for all male citizens between the ages of 21 to 30. In 1918 the age range was expanded to 18 to 45.

1/29/2014: William Skjerven Sr., also called Bill, was a locally celebrated inventor in Walsh County. He was born on a farm in Fertile Township, Walsh County, and moved into Park River in 1916. He repaired cars and motorcycles in various garages until he opened his own garage in 1927. During World War II, he converted his garage into a war plant where he manufactured M105 and M115 bomb caps, machine gun cleaning rods, and other items. An estimated 800 per day of the bomb caps were turned out for the Minneapolis Ordinance Center.

1/28/2014: On this date in 1950, students at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo, now NDSU, were enjoying a very special gift received from Fargo Radio Station WDAY..."twenty-five thousand dollars worth of outmoded radio broadcasting equipment."

1/24/2014: In Meredith Wilson's musical The Music Man, flim-flam man extraordinaire, Professor Harold Hill, not only sells a small town in Iowa on the idea of a boy's marching band, but also the uniforms to go with it...complete with the stripe up the side of the leg.

1/9/2014: On this date in 1933, Mr. Felix Renville and his wife were getting ready to travel from their home in Fort Yates to New York to appear on Robert Ripley's radio program, "Believe It or Not."

12/17/2013: Bob Watson was something of a mystery citizen. No one knew him when he first moved to Mandan in 1925. He was slight—perhaps in some ways a little too thin—but cheerful.

11/26/2013: We stand on the precipice of the holiday season, with Thanksgiving approaching rapidly – a time we often reflect on what the past has brought to us. Such was the case in 1954 for Mrs. Robert Welch of Menoken, who shared her own special memories with the students of Saint Mary's High School.

11/15/2013: In the beginning of November 1959, Arthur Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, made an announcement that cranberries produced in Washington and Oregon in 1958 and 1959 were possibly contaminated by a chemical weed killer called aminotriazole. This chemical, when tested, caused thyroid cancer in rats.

10/22/2013: If you could were able to share a meal and talk a little with anyone you wanted, who would you like to meet with?